Post: Lets try and get this question about online id change answered by Shuhei Yoshida
06-12-2013, 11:08 AM #1
xLew--
Former Staff
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Alot of people including myself would like a option to change our usernames, wherever it will require a fee or not. its one of ps3 top requested things wanted but nothing has been said about the ps4, only that we will be using online id or real name etc.

Lets try get the tweet too him

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Click the link below and then click Retweet and/or Favourite, lets get it to him, maybe we can get other questions to him too.

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06-12-2013, 01:04 PM #11
Beats
Platinum Seller
Originally posted by DEREKTROTTER View Post
damn almost all the good PSN names are taken, half of the 3/4 letter PSNs are inactive and my main PSN i had for 4 years was banned :/


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06-12-2013, 09:21 PM #12
xLew--
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Originally posted by ClutchNastii671 View Post
They'll probably get sued by Microsoft for using their idea/feature


it was not their idea though, changing a name online has been around since usernames were invited
06-12-2013, 09:33 PM #13
Originally posted by Sloth View Post
Which tells me that our actual username is used to pull our trophies etc but maybe they're lying? Because if they want us to use our real name that must mean that they can change our username!


U will keep ur username, your real name is just an addition, like editing your profile in a way.
But I hope when they add our real name, maybe they will use that to get trophys etc instead of the PSN ID, but it's very unlikely after your answered mail.
06-12-2013, 09:59 PM #14
Hickey
League Champion
I cant see how the psn pulls trophies etc, xbox can change names easily with achievements and copy the profile to a harddrive, surely its not that hard to implement name change

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06-12-2013, 10:18 PM #15
ps3gamefreak55
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I don't really care whether or not you can change your id's. Once would be enough for me if they do, and personally i'm against this idea, mainly because once you have a game ID why would you want to change it? it would be better if you could just keep it the same, and if they did this then you wouldn't know who's who on your friends list hahaha
06-12-2013, 10:26 PM #16
GodDrinksPepsi
League Champion
Originally posted by DEREKTROTTER View Post
damn almost all the good PSN names are taken, half of the 3/4 letter PSNs are inactive and my main PSN i had for 4 years was banned :/


Had a account named 'Kyle' and then all of sudden it got an error where I couldn't sign in so I made a new account and it let me sign in perfectly fine... Its just every time I logged into my Kyle account it gave me a error saying you are unable to sign into Playstation Network... Later on I tried to add my account on my backup account and it turns out some Japanese person owned it like wtf I wish they would do something about the inactivity though it sucks ass
06-12-2013, 11:50 PM #17
xLew--
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Originally posted by Cyberix View Post
U will keep ur username, your real name is just an addition, like editing your profile in a way.
But I hope when they add our real name, maybe they will use that to get trophys etc instead of the PSN ID, but it's very unlikely after your answered mail.


Originally posted by Sloth View Post
Yesterday I contacted SEN and this is the email I recieved from them

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Which tells me that our actual username is used to pull our trophies etc but maybe they're lying? Because if they want us to use our real name that must mean that they can change our username!


in that email theyre refering to the ps3 & sen, they cant say about the ps4 online yet if nothing has been officialy announced etc.
06-13-2013, 02:36 AM #18
Originally posted by xLew
in that email theyre refering to the ps3 & sen, they cant say about the ps4 online yet if nothing has been officialy announced etc.


If the PS+ is going to carry over from ps3/vita to PS4, I think that says enough. UI pic's of your profile page also have a username written beneath that guys "real" name.
06-13-2013, 05:10 AM #19
HomelandSec
League Champion
Originally posted by ccarlsen View Post
I support this but at the same time I hate they don't release inactive ID's. So even if we could change, there's no good and original ID's left anymore.


Because people own the accounts and will not likely release inactive ID's for people to use.

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